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| Original Title: | A Parchment of Leaves |
| ISBN: | 0345464974 (ISBN13: 9780345464972) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Appalachia(United States) |
Silas House
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 4.18 | 3499 Users | 403 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Parchment of Leaves |
| Author | : | Silas House |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | August 26th 2003 by Ballantine Books (first published August 16th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. American. Southern. Adult Fiction. Literary Fiction. Family |
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Winner-Kentucky Novel of the Year, 2003Winner-Award for Special Achievement from Fellowship of Southern
Writers
Nominee-Southern Book Critics Circle Prize
Nominee-BookSense Book of the Year (longlist)
"So it is that Vine, Cherokee-born and raised in the early 1900s, trains her eye on a young white man, forsaking her family and their homeland to settle in with Saul's people: his smart-as-a-whip, slow-to-love mother, Esme; his brother Aaron, a gifted banjo player, hot tempered and unpredictable; and Aaron's flightly and chattery Melungeon wife, Aidia." It's a delicate negotiation into this new family and culture, one that Vine's mother had predicted would not go smoothly. But it's worse than she could have imagined. Vine is viewed as an outsider by the townspeople. Aaron, she slowly realizes, is strangely fixated on her. But what is at first difficult becomes a test of her spirit. And in the violent turn of events that ensues, she learns what it means to forgive others and, most important, how to forgive herself.
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Ratings: 4.18 From 3499 Users | 403 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books A Parchment of Leaves
That's all anybody can ask for, if you think about it--to have somebody love you and depend on you and take care of you when you're sick, and mourn over your casket when you die. Family's the only thing a person's got in this life. This is a story of family, of how one comes to be, how the roots we receive from our parents define us, how unconnected people form one, how complicated the interactions can be, and sometimes how tragic. The character at the heart of this tale is Vine, a CherokeeEntertaining but not amazing.
The Appalachian mountains came alive for me as soon as I opened this book. The details were so vivid, so vibrant that I felt like I was there, walking the trails along with the characters. This story was beautifully written and the characters were very well developed. I well not forget this story for a long time and that is how I know this one was a winner for me. Definitely my favorite read of the year.
This is a very good piece of Southern literature that is satisfying in a nostalgic way. **I could identify with Vine,the main character(of Cherokee descent),quite well as my own great-grandmother was Cherokee. At the heart of this book is exposure to the way racism has always been fueled by land ownership rights and the way that laws always restricted rights of persons of color while quite obviously favoring White European ancestry. This book exposed me to "Melungeons", a census classification
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When Saul, a young man of Irish descent, first sees Vine, a young Cherokee woman, standing half in the darkness of the doorway, her face lost to shadows he finds himself searching for words to describe her. Her eyes were chips of coal; her lips, the color of peach light at dusk. He approaches her with payment from his mother for saving his brother, which Vine tries to refuse, and then asks him if he is not afraid of her, because of the rumours of her being able to kill men with her curses. He
A raving fiver!!! Astonishingly good. This is a book I could read again and there aren't many of those. The novel is set in 1917 Crow County, Kentucky. House grew up in Laurel County, Kentucky and says he based the fictional Crow County on the neighboring county of Leslie, where he spent much of his childhood. 'A Parchment of Leaves' is about home, belonging, love, family, betrayal, all loose and wondering around everywhere in the pages of this novel. The protagonist is Vine, a full blood
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